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Evil Joe Barresi’s Glamouflage Kit Welcome and thank you for purchasing Evil Joe Barresi’s Glamouflage Kit! We hope you enjoy working with it as much as we do. Please read through this manual carefully. The installation process and the Hit types used in this expansion pack differ from earlier products in the FXpansion BFD range. Reading through this manual will ensure that you get the most out of the sounds. The data on the Glamouflage Kit DVDs is compressed (using a zero-loss algorithm), to facilitate the delivery of the highest possible level of detail. Either BFD2 or the latest version of BFD v1.5 is required in order to use Evil Joe Barresi’s Glamouflage Kit. Please make sure it is properly installed before you proceed. Installation Each DVD contains an installer specific to the contents of that DVD. Please follow these steps for each DVD ! Special note for Mac users: during the installation routine, you may be asked for your Admin password. You must have Admin rights in order to install this software. IMPORTANT!! Each DVD contains different installers for users of BFD 1.5 and BFD. If you only own BFD 1.5, please run the installer named: Evil Joe’s Glamouflage Kit Installer BFD1 [OSX]/[Win] If you have BFD installed (including BFD 1.5), please run the installer named: Evil Joe’s Glamouflage Kit Installer BFD2 [OSX]/[Win] Mac users should run the Installer for OSX and Windows users should run the installer for Win. 1. Insert the DVD and run the Evil Joe’s Glamouflage Kit Installer • Windows: If the installer does not auto-run, explore the DVD contents in My Computer and double-click Evil Joe’s Glamouflage Kit Installer BFD 2 Win.exe to run it. • Mac: Open the DVD contents and double-click Evil Joe’s Glamouflage Kit Installer BFD 2 OS .X 2. Follow the on-screen instructions until the ‘Installation Path’ stage appears. 3. Select your audio path: For BFD 1.5 this is the folder which contains the Data folder in which the sample data resides. Make sure you select the BFD folder, and not BFD/Data or any other folder. If you do not select the correct folder, the new sounds will not be available within BFD. For BFD, select an existing BFD data path or create a new folder - this should not be in the same path as any BFD 1.x data. Click Next when you’re ready to proceed. 4. (BFD 1.5 only) Enter your Glamouflage Kit serial number (located on the inside front cover of the case containing the DVDs). Click Next to proceed. 5. Choose the detail level at which to install the DVD’s kit-pieces. This determines the maximum amount of velocity layers (and the hard disk usage) that are installed for each kit-piece on the DVD. Higher detail levels have a higher impact on system resources. Small: a maximum of 0 velocity layers will be installed Medium: a maximum of 0 velocity layers will be installed Large: a maximum of 96 velocity layers will be installed SuperSize: all the velocity layers will be installed NOTE: Installing SuperSize will require more disk space - To use the extra velocity layers please read “New expressive possibilities” on page 10 of this manual Click Next to commence installation. Installation of each DVD can take quite a while, as a large amount of data needs to be de-compressed and installed. 5 Adding a new Data Path in BFD If you’ve added a new data path for the sample data, you need to add that path to BFD: • BFD 1.5: In the Options Panel add the new Data Path • BFD 2: In the BFD Data Preferences add the new Data Path Please consult your BFD manual for details about adding a new data path. 5 Authorizing After installation, the first time you run BFD it will scan the new data and prompt you to run License Manager. Authorize Evil Joe’s Glamouflage Kit (EJG) in the License Manager in the same way you authorized BFD and any other expansion packs you own. Please consult the BFD QuickStart Guide for a full guide to using the License Manager to authorize a product. Your serial number is located on the inside front cover of the case containing the DVDs If you experience any problems during the installation, please consult our FAQ page: www.platinumsamples.com/faq You MUST be registered to receive support. The BFD2 authorization process registers your serial automatically, but BFD 1.5 users will need to register their serial at www.platinumsamples.com manually. Registering also means we have a record of your serial if you lose it. Lost serials will NOT be replaced! Registering also allows you access to the download area, containing free bonus content such as additional velocity layers. 6 Evil Joe Barresi Some highlights from Joe’s career include: › Tool - 10,000 Days › Queens of the Stone Age - QOTSA, Lullabies To Paralyze › Audrey Horne - No Hay Banda › Rancid - “Fall Back Down” from Indestructible › Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First › Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather › Backyard Babies - Stockholm Syndrome › Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion › Judas Priest - Angel Of Retribution › Weezer - Pinkerton › Powerman 5000 - Transform › Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun, Welcome to Sky Valley › Raging Speedhorn - How The Great Have Fallen › Tomahawk - Mit Gas › Pennywise - Land Of The Free › The Jesus Lizard - Shot › Fu Manchu - The Action Is Go › Matchbook Romance - Stories and Alibis › L - The Beauty Process, Hungry For Stink › The Melvins - Stag, Honky, Stoner Witch › Skunk Anansie - Stoosh for additional credits please visit the Platinum Samples website. 6 Recording notes The Glamouflage Kit was recorded in one of LA’s greatest rock drum rooms direct to analog tape, using a Studer tape recorder. Joe used the studio’s classic Neve 0 console and his own esoteric collection of outboard gear to sculpt his sounds. To accomodate the way Joe records and to keep things phase accurate, the BFD drums are set up as follows: Kick In and Kick Out were recorded as a mono track and multed to both tracks. Cymbals 1 & are the same as the Overheads right and left respectively as viewed from audience perspective (please see the panning notes on page 1). No mics were killed or injured during the recording of this expansion pack. • Direct Kick In & Out: Sennheiser 1, Neumann FET, Audio Technica ATM 5. Snare Top: Shure SM5, KM6. Snare Bottom: Shure SM5. HiHat: AKG 5EB, Neumann KM. Toms: Sennheiser 1, Neumann u, AKG 1EB. Ride: Neumann KM, AKG 5EB. • Overhead Pair of Neumann u6’s, Pair of Violet Amethyst Vintage, Pair of Coles 0’s. • Room Pair of Neumann u’s, Pair of Royer 11’s. More details and pictures are available on the Platinum Samples website. 9 quickPack notes Unlike other expansion packs for BFD, the drums in the Platinum Samples quickPacks are fully mix processed while still having all the tracks separated and without losing any velocity layers. The PZM/Ambience channels have been used for the sidechain effects return - this channel should be used at unity (-dB in BFD) for best results. 9 Using the new sounds in BFD Kits and Kit-Pieces All Kit-Pieces on all DVDs must be installed in order to use the ready-made Kit. If you’re only installing a selection of Kit-Pieces, you need to compile your own Kit from the installed Kit-Pieces, something which takes a matter of seconds in BFD. A note about the new Hit type articulations Certain Kit-Pieces feature only some of the possible Hit type articulations, or feature new types of articulations substituted for the conventional BFD Hit types. With such a large library, the usefulness of the sound had to be balanced against the extra resources required. Please consult the Kit-Piece listing in this manual, or the info text displays in the BFD Kit-Piece Selector panels, for details of each Kit-Piece’s Hit types and substitutions. New expressive possibilities The Glamouflage Kit features detail levels much higher than the original BFD library. With a SuperSize installation, there are over 150 velocity layers for some hits. To access the higher velocity layers change the Max layers setting in the BFD Preferences. WARNING!! Using velocity layers above 128 may severely overtax your system especially if you’re running any other soft synths with BFD. Hyper-detailed hihats and cymbals The hihats in this pack feature extra ¼-open and ¾-open position Hit types, in addition to the usual closed, ½-open and open positions found in the original BFD library. Ride cymbals include bell Hits. The hihats and cymbals are captured with more velocity layers than those on the original BFD library. 10 11 Increased RAM overhead The increased levels of detail in the new sounds cause a significantly higher RAM overhead compared to the content in the original BFD library. When using smaller amounts of RAM (768MB to 1GB), you should install the Glamouflage Kit with Small or Medium detail levels (see Installation guide for details), or consult the Performance Tips section in the BFD FAQ for other ways to optimize BFD for lower memory usage at the FXpansion website. Using Evil Joe Barresi’s Glamouflage Kit The Platinum Samples quickPacks are fully mix processed -- meaning the drums were recorded like they would be on a recording session and have also had final mix processing applied to them. The drums have been meticulously tuned, compressed and EQ’d by a master craftsman. The result is an expansion pack which sounds great as soon as you load a kit.